The US Delfin floating LNG export project offshore Louisiana is making some progress with regulators assessing the scope of the environmental review, including the onshore pipeline portion of the venture.
Australian liquefied natural gas player Origin Energy and a joint venture partner have decided to go ahead with investments in the Waitsia gas field project in the onshore Perth Basin of Western Australia, a venture that relaunches low-cost energy production in Australia.
Woodside Petroleum, Australia's largest LNG operator, said it made a natural gas discovery with good potential in the Rakhine Basin deep water block offshore Myanmar.
Australian LNG and energy engineering company Clough said the Clough-Amec joint venture was awarded a new three-year contract by ConocoPhillips to provide asset support and operations and maintenance services to the Bayu-Undan field in the Timor Sea that supplies the Darwin LNG plant in northern Australia.
The Canadian province of British Columbia, with about a dozen large-scale liquefied natural gas export projects still in the planning stage, has brought into force tougher greenhouse gas regulations targeting liquefaction plants.
Petronet LNG, the largest Indian liquefied natural gas importer, has altered the economics of the market in India by securing a 50 percent price cut in deliveries from Qatar under a long-term contract.
Chinese energy company Sinopec, a shareholder in the Australia Pacific LNG project, said its Fuling shale-gas venture in Chongqing in southwest China now had annual production capacity of 5 billion cubic metres.
Japan's largest liquefied natural gas importers Tokyo Electric Power and Chubu Electric said they would integrate their LNG and several other businesses into their Jera Co. Inc. joint venture in July 2016, though would wait until 2017 to decide on any integration of their domestic power generation divisions under the…
Malaysian energy company Petronas said it had reached the 95 percent completion point with the world's first floating liquefied natural gas production hull that will be deployed over the Kanowit field, located 180 kilometres offshore Sarawak, Malaysia, in late 2016.
The US Department of Energy has released a new study on the macroeconomic impacts of the nation's liquefied natural gas export plans involving at least 20 projects.